February 22

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[edit] Events

• 1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexican.
• 1862 - Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
• 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Germany.
• 1948 - Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.

[edit] Births

• 1403 - Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
• 1732 - George Washington, First President of the United States (d. 1799)
• 1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian National Socialist (d. 1969)
• 1932 - Edward Kennedy, American politician
• 1938 - Pierre Vallières, founding member of the Front de libération du Québec (d. 1995)

[edit] Deaths

• 1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (b. c.1055)